Les tribulations d'une caissière

Synopsis of Les tribulations d'une caissière

«Les tribulations d'une caissière» is Anna Sam's essay about her experience as a checkout clerk, published by Stock in hardcover (190 pages, in French).

Anna Sam recounts her experience as a supermarket checkout clerk after eight years on the job and a university degree in literature. Through anecdotes about customers and the work routine, she shows the invisible and often ridiculed face of commerce: the checkout as a stage for lies, habits and small daily miseries.

Originally published in French on June 4, 2008. Part of the «Les documents» collection from Stock.

For readers with French proficiency interested in first-person accounts of the working world and everyday consumption.